(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) holds grave concerns for the future of press freedom in Thailand following a court decision permitting the Prime Minister's Office to demand television station, iTV, pay over 100 billion baht (around US$2.9 billion) in fines by March 6. According to local reports, the military-installed government will terminate the license of iTV and...
New York, March 1, 2007—The Togolese government on Wednesday indefinitely banned from broadcast veteran journalist and media activist Daniel Lawson-Drackey over a commentary on private radio Nana FM that was critical of a government minister, according to local journalists. “It’s outrageous that the government is censoring a respected journalist for raising critical questions about an issue of...
(BCHR/IFEX) - The Bahrain Center for Human Rights welcomes the release of two Bahraini political activists, known as the "Leaflet Detainees", who were sentenced to prison in January 2007 for distributing political leaflets. However, the BCHR calls for steps to be taken to end the continuous government practice of using detention and prosecution to harass human rights and political activists, and...
New York, March 1, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by anonymous death threats against Robert Valdec, anchor of the popular weekly program “Istraga” (Investigation) on Zagreb’s independent Nova TV. The phone and e-mail messages did not specify the coverage that prompted the intimidation, but local journalists and press freedom advocates believe they came in response to the...
(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, February 28, 2007 - Stories critical of President Laurent Gbagbo led authorities this week to charge four journalists working for two private newspapers in the commercial capital, Abidjan, with offending the head of state, according to news reports and local journalists. "We are concerned by this apparent crackdown on critical reporting," said CPJ Executive Director Joel...
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazine publishers rejoice: Google and Yahoo executives said again yesterday you have nothing to fear from their nimble, strong and fast-growing empires. They just want you to join in their revolution. "At Google, we don't own content, nor do we create it," said David Eun, VP-content partnerships, Google, the opening speaker at the Magazine Publishers of America's third...
Liberian Tuesday banned the Independent newspaper from publishing for one year after it published, on its front page, a photo of a state minister involved in a sex scandal. Information Minister Lawrence Bropleh said the paper exposed Liberian children to pornography by publishing the nude photograph of former minister of state for presidential affairs Willis Knuckles having sex with two women. â
New York, February 27, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a three-month prison sentence and heavy damages handed down by a court in the southeastern city of Boma against a journalist over a story alleging corruption by the municipal treasury. Popol Ntula Vita, a correspondent at the private weekly La Cité Africaine in the capital Kinshasa, was sentenced on February 16 to three...
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the action of the Tunisian authorities in banning issues of two French publications, the daily Le Monde and the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, and blocking the website of a third, the daily Libération, because of articles by Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik critical of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. “After three years of silence, Taoufik Ben Brik...
CHICAGO: Paddock Publications Inc., publisher of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago, on Monday became the 10th charter member of the national consortium between newspaper companies and Yahoo. The Daily Herald began uploading its local jobs to the HotJobs.com online platform. The Yahoo site has 1.1 million registered job seekers in Illinois, Paddock said. Yahoo reaches an audience of 4.9 million...
